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The Chalice and the Blade

Our History, Our Future

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The Chalice and the Blade

By: Riane Eisler
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Riane Eisler reads this new, accessible adaptation of her ground-breaking classic The Chalice and the Blade, in which she combined original theory with noted scholarship to tell a new story of our cultural origins. Drawing evidence from literature, art, sociology, archeology, politics, and economics, she eloquently reconstructs a prehistoric culture based on partnership rather than domination. She then traces the roots of the global shift to patriarchy, showing that was and the "war of the sexes" are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. Finally, and most significantly, she provides new scripts for living, proving that a better future is possible, and is in fact rooted in the drama of our past.

©1987 Riane Eisler (P)1997 New World Library Gender Studies Social Sciences World

Critic reviews

"The most important book since Darwin's Origin of Species." (Ashley Montagu)
"Some books are like revelations, they open the spirit to unimaginable possibilities. [this] is one of those magnificent key books that can transform us." (Isabel Allende)
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The quality of the audio file was Shockingly bad. The narration had no intonation whatsoever it was quite the dullest voice I have ever heard

The subject was interesting to me, information I had not heard before

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This recording has extremely crackly sound making it very hard to making out certain consonants. Combined with the reader's odd accent it's very hard to understand. I tried listening for about 40 minutes or so, going back to re-listen to bits I could not make out, but eventually gave up and returned. If you want the information in this book you'd be better off with a print version. It's also not helpful that the recording consists of one "chapter". The narrator mentions many more chapters than one (she announced chapter 4 just before I gave up). There really should be much better quality control. I've tried to be generous giving 3 stars for story but because I couldn't make it to the end I can't really be sure.

Unlistenable

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I really enjoyed the book but the recording quality is terrible. it sounds like someone sat at the other end of a room with a cassette recorder with a built in mic

awful sound.

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The sound isn’t great but I recommend listening - the author helps shift the lenses on patriarchy, it’s myths and of course, how it’s bad news for all humanity, in an admirable clear prose.

Well worth listening to. Mind expanding.

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How can this pass quality? Please, this is not acceptable. I cannot follow the book at leisure.

Poor audio quality

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